Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 5 Issue 3

Factors affecting successful implementation of total productive maintenance: A UK manufacturing case study perspective

C.J. Bamber, J.M. Sharp, M.T. Hides

Modern manufacturing requires that to be successful organisations must be supported by both effective and efficient maintenance. One approach to improving the performance of…

Case study: RCM – yes, no or maybe?

L. Pintelon, N. Nagarur, F. Van Puyvelde

The basic research question of this paper is how to determine the optimum maintenance concept for an industrial installation in a practical, i.e. with a reasonable input effort…

Optimizing condition‐based maintenance decisions for equipment subject to vibration monitoring

A.K.S. Jardine, T. Joseph, D. Banjevic

The paper reports the development of an optimal maintenance program based on vibration monitoring of critical bearings on machinery in the food processing industry. Statistical…

Practical models for condition monitoring inspection intervals

David J. Sherwin, Basim Al‐Najjar

Markov models find optimum inspection intervals for phased deterioration of monitored complex components in a system with severe down time costs. The number of (pseudo)‐phases can…

Age‐based opportunity maintenance

David J. Sherwin

Suggests new ways to construct and update preventive schedules for a complex system by making better use of system failure down time to do preventive work without further…

Economic criteria to select a cost‐effective maintenance policy

Basim Al‐Najjar

The reputation of an organisation is often built through hard work on improving quality, reliability, delivery time and price. In this paper a graphical method for the selection…

An object‐oriented decision support system for maintenance management

Nagen N. Nagarur, Jittra Kaewplang

As the world approaches a new millennium, more and more industrial and manufacturing processes are being computerized and rapid retrieval and use of necessary information is vital…

Searching for real maintenance performance measures

Richard Dwight

Performance measurement remains a complex issue. This is particularly so if some absolute measure of performance is sought. A definition of performance in terms of value is…

A holistic approach to the maintenance “problem”

Jasper L. Coetzee

Modern production machines require a new approach towards the maintenance “problem”. Maintenance engineers realise this and are eager to implement new philosophies…